On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 22:14 -0400, deant@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
I'm forwarding these comments to the respective maintainers, so that
they can look at them.
> Rsyslog: I prefer to use rsyslog to sysklogd and found that when I replaced
> alpine's sysklogd with rsyslog that hostnames were missing for some logs
> sent to remote servers; I tracked this down to rsyslog starting before
> the hostname was setup.
>
> Should /etc/init.d/rsyslog have a "need clock hostname localmount" clause
> in the depend() like /etc/init.d/sysklog or does this interfere with other
> usages?
I think yes, we should add these depends.
> Exim: the included exim.initd references /etc/exim/ as the location for
> exim.conf, but both the exim.Makefile and the APKBUILD use /etc/mail as
> the location for exim.conf. I'm unsure which reference would be preferred.
I think /etc/exim should be preferred. What are other distributions
doing?
Also exim is still in testing. Please report whether it is working fine,
and please Jesse confirm that you can take care of maintaining it, so
that we can move it to main.
Thank you for looking into these issues.
- leo